Maspeth Kiwanis Club Honors Top StudentsOn Thursday June 21, the Maspeth Kiwanis Club honored nine area high school seniors with $1,500 scholarships. Len Masone, the Scholarship Program Chairman, said that to earn the scholarship student...

Lions Club welcomes three new members
On Thursday, June 7, the Maspeth Lions Club inducted three new members. Angela Mann, Vinny Allocca and John Considine were all sworn in by Maspeth Lions member and Zone Chairman Joseph Abramaitis. ...

Middle Village's Relay for Life
Juniper Valley Park will play host to Relay for Life this weekend, an annual fundraising event where people who have faced cancer or who have lost a loved one to the disease walk through the night ...

Jill Ann Rudzewick-Vik Passes Away Jill Ann Rudzewick-Vik, 46, passed away Thursday morning after a battle with cancer. Jill is a graduate of St. Stanislaus Kostka Elementary School, Christ the King, Mercy College and she did her ma...

Some ping pong with that whiskey?
A Maspeth liquor store is changing up the routine alcohol run. In the center of Nunny's Liquor, at 59-63 69th Street, sits a full-sized ping pong table, and patrons are invited to join a game as th...

2012 Memorial Day Parade draws extra large crowd
Hundreds lined Grand Avenue on Sunday, May 27, to honor those who have answered the call to serve their country at the 28th Annual Memorial Day Parade in Maspeth. Residents stood or sat on the curb...

104th Precinct Police Blotter (5/21/12-5/27-12)Monday, May 21 Guillermo Freire-Torres was arrested at the intersection of Myrtle Avenue and Union Turnpike for driving while intoxicated by Officer Ferreris. Michael Hidalgo was arrested at the in...

Breaking News

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Gambia's ruler of more than 22 years announced late Friday that he no longer accepts defeat in the country's presidential election, reversing course a week after he conceded to his rival.

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump is stacking his trade transition team with veterans of the U.S. steel industry's battles with China, signaling a potentially more aggressive approach to U.S. complaints of unfair Chinese subsidies for its exports and barriers to imports. Led by Wilbur Ross, a billionaire steel investor and Trump's nominee for commerce secretary, Dan DiMicco, the former CEO of steelmaker Nucor Corp, and three veteran steel trade lawyers, the team is expected to help shift the U.S. trade focus more heavily toward enforcement actions aimed at bringing down a chronic U.S. trade deficit, Washington trade experts said.

DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal on Saturday called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council after Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh announced he was rejecting the results of a Dec. 1 election which he lost to President-elect Adama Barrow. Senegal's Foreign Minister, Mankeur Ndiaye, speaking on television station TFM, also asked Jammeh to respect the election verdict and "solemnly" warned him not to harm Senegal's interests or its citizens in the West African country. Senegal is currently a non-permanent member of the Security Council. ...